skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old guy here who grew up without phones but later felt the dependace they were creating in me so worked to stop it.

You have to start with yourself an be an example. It is an "addiction of sorts" (maybe a very strong habit?), but think of it like telling an alcoholic to just stop drinking.

Like an addiction, you need to get rid of the Pavlovian ringing bells to help you through.

Rule one: Turn off all notifications and turn on battery saver mode.

Rule two: Get off of all social media. I am including HN with this. Delete them, you will be fine. HN is the only place I talk online now and only on my laptop, but its days are numbered for me.

Rule three: Leave your phone behind. Probably the hardest. I started just by leaving it the car when I was shopping, then leaving it home when shopping.When I ma at the coffee shop I leave it in my bag.

Rule four: Do not use your phone at all when you are home. Start by setting time limits and extend them, but no one died stopping cold turkey. I only even use my laptop in the morning to read news

Rule five: Learn to do something else with your hands. Cook, work on your car, clean your house, anything.

Rule six: Be OK with "not knowing" and try to stop searching the internet every time a question pops up in your head. This was very hard for me because of my clinically diagnosed OCD. I found the "checking" my phone was allowing me to do just made my OCD worse in the long run.

I am at the point now where I use my phone so little the battery lasts five days easy with 20% left.
I've tried a lot of things like app blockers and so on, and what has given me the best sense of control is simply removing the phone from my physical presence. I.e. turned off or silent in my bag or in another room. And being intentional about when I bring it out. This has given me a huge productivity boost. (I commented about that boost a while back and some guy actually accused me of lying because he found it so unbelievable!)

I still average about 2 hours a day on it. Most of this happens when I'm eating or using the bathroom and would not be productive time anyway. By the metric of this article that's still 1 month of my life per year. Not sure I see this as a huge problem, if I did, I could cut it down even further.

Maybe we should be more concerned about a related figure - the time we spend consuming digital media, which is now pushing 8 hours per day. The phone is a very pervasive vessel for that but when I cut back phone use I found that media consumption on other devices started creeping up so I'm trying to work out ways to avoid that. I think our lives are richer if we create more and consume less.
Considering last year at the same event a female player was fined for wearing the wrong shoes I have to disagree with your claim.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-29/chess-player-fined-ov...
Show HN: This tool gives adaptive memory to LLMs
> Have you ever looked at how useless Chuck Moore's stuff is?

I've seen someone well known in the Forth community say something like that to Chuck. I think he said "what can I do with that?"

If GA144 is useless, it's only because it has not been put to good use, in my opinion. I think it was more-or-less his answer too, IIRC.

I work with system-on-chip or system-on-modules. You know, the ARM-based chips with tons of peripherals. I also worked with similar chips before the ARM era.

The complexity of these chips is as of today, absurd. I/O is multiplexed to make the chip usable for various things, but one has to configure all of them and watch out for conflicts. Then there's also zillions of configurable clocks in order to reduce the power consumption. Solutions to problems that spawn new problems, not in the "divide and conquer" style, unfortunately. This resulted in "device tree" configuration in Linux, a runtime configuration system, because CPU companies excrete a new variant every week.

Maybe I fool myself, but I can see a GA144 bit-banging IRDA, LCD, SPI, etc. in a much more efficient and flexible way.

> (2010) is a fairly interesting experience from someone on the outside trying to work in the same way. It… didn't work that well.

And here in 2025 there's still Forth-based companies alive, like MPE or Forth, Inc.

More specifically, this author writes,

[...] it was harder than we thought. Presumably that was partly the result of not reading "Stack Computers: the new wave", and not studying the chip designs of Forth's creator Chuck Moore, either. I have a feeling that knowledgable people would have sneered at this machine: it was trivial to compile Forth to it, but at the cost of complicating the hardware.

Implementing a stack-based processor without reading the literature on them is a bit foolish, don't you think? The rest is in the same vein; I can see why a person who was essentially a Forth newbie had a bad experience with this kind of project. If this article "debunks" Forth, it is by showing that just because something it is simple, doesn't mean it is easy. Because the world is not simple and simplifying is much harder than let Complexity loose.
If only Keats had an LLM! :)
Which Gemini AI model did you use?
This might be a good candidate for the 2025 Ig Nobel prize in physics [1].

More seriously, NV centers are one of the most accessible quantum hardware platforms, and do very sensitive measurements on all kinds of interesting stuff.

1. https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/
Imagine if China managed to convince Mexico to join a military alliance and then moved to deploy troops, military bases, and likely nuclear weapons right on the border.

You can imagine all you want, but that's not what happened in regard to Ukraine.

What did happen is that Ukraine formally renounced its NATO aspirations in 2010, but Putin invaded anyway in 2014.
As much as I'd like to support the overall sentiment of the article, or at least of the part that I actually read, the stats just don't pass the smell test.

> If you’re like one of the Americans surveyed by Reviews.org, this is one of 205 times today that you’ll be checking the device in your hand. To spare you opening the calculator app, that’s about once every five minutes you are awake or two and a half full months out of your year.

That just can't be true. First of all, it assumes 1 minute of spending at the phone, every of those 1 times per 5 minutes. Totalling 5 hours a day. On average for everybody. I'm sure there are some outliers like that, but there are tons of people out there for whom there is no way they would get even close.

To top it off, their sample was surely neither random nor representative. Of course you get heavily biased data if you are asking a tech crowd.

I stopped reading at this point. Garbage in, garbage put, i.e. whatever conclusion they were eventually drawing was not based on actual facts.
Biggest issue is the lack of free speech. It’s a platform with an agenda, which is a huge red flag.
> The intent was to protect data, children and reduce the amount of processing done on the server end to analyse everything.

If it’s for the children, then giving up our civil liberties is a small price to pay. I’d also like to give up liberties in the name of “terrorism”.

When we willingly give up our rights out of fear, these evil people have won.
These error margins are derived mathematically from the population and results. They assume a representative sample.
It's not hard. Can make a disk shape battery that can be screwed into the back of the phone with a flat screwdriver.
Thanks for clarifying. Too late to edit my original post.
Probably because it's a censored model
One of the goals of gateway is to act as a test bed for long term manned operations outside of low earth orbit. I.e. start developing and proving the technology in flight that we are going to need for a mars mission.
> So just produce LLM-level code, make excuses, say you’re learning the code base, get lots of help from colleagues, turn in mediocre work

If they switched from doing all this to pressing people for estimates.
“Political” and “decentralized”
Are not mutually exclusive.

In fact, any platform that uses decentralization as a selling point is inherently political, as the only ones that care about decentralization are the ones who care about politics.

Everyone else is just trying to see what the famous person said last week or what their friend did on vacation.

Corpo social media does solve for that.
My armchair explanation is that people can’t cope with being bored. All those notifications are little bits of dopamine hits each time they arrive. It’s not even FOMO, just waiting for something that may be interesting.
no way a 14kg battery can store 14kWh
Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) are installed in the overrun area of many but certainly not all runways. No idea about this airport. And I’m not sure how effective EMAS is in a gear-up landing such as this accident.
Is that fruit related to yeni dünya?
depending on the options you need (like typo tolerance), building the index can be quite slow and use a lot of memory
Therefore it's a bad concept.
I'm up to roughly 40 boards at this point. I use two of them basically daily - my desktop and laptop dock.

I tend to rotate them a few times a month. The hobby is about the gear, but the people that get really deep into it tend to be building them to fit a specific aesthetic - people make custom keycap sets, complete with graphic novelty keys, etc., for all sorts of themes, from food, to anime, to space, and everything in between. And people design the keyboard cases for just as many themes. Mine sit on stands in my office as decoration - I enjoy looking at them the same as I enjoy using them.
I read “infinite NDA” and built up a crazy story while the video was loading.
I had a free minute to look over my posts. They aren't bitter. If someone reads these posts as bitter or sees red flags that prevents them from hiring me, that is a petty employer with poor reading comprehension who is too involved in my personal life and I wouldn't want to work for them regardless.
Furthermore, I haven't offered up enough information about my situation or experiences to make a real judgement about my personality. Anyone who hires or fires or makes other judgment calls in such a rash manner would make a terrible coworker, employer and business owner. Again - not someone I have any interest in spending time with.
I need no education on the hiring process or sly backhanded tips that are meant to degrade and belittle me. I have no time for such people or their empty words, and I won't be baited into a ridiculous argument. If you would like to stay on topic and post information about your recent experiences in the job market, by all means, do so. I didn't make this post seeking advice or help. I'm looking for information for research purposes.

Offering one's advice when another hasn't requested it is condescending, especially when one knows absolutely nothing about the other person.

If you wish to imagine me as a bitter person sitting around cursing immigrants for my woes, so be it. You'll be wrong and dumber for it, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince some idiot otherwise.

I have nothing to hide. I shared this whole post on LinkedIn. I don't care if a potential employer reads it.

Just to reiterate: they don't like it? I don't care. I like working with people who aren't petty and obtuse. Having no job is better than walking on eggshells and being strong armed out of a political opinion by trolls like Jeff under the guise of "creative criticism".
These are all good points - and ones I’ve been trying to follow for the past few months. Rule five was the most important one for me. Anytime I have an urge to doomscroll, I make a conscious effort to do something IRL instead. Taking up a deep hobby which can take years/decades to actually master seems like a better time sink (practicing visual art in my case)

The thought that quitting social media is harder than quitting smoking also helps cement the idea that it is bad for me when I try to dissuade myself from using it
>> Bitcoin isn't only a financial system for illegal transactions,

I didn't mean to imply that it was. I don't think I said that, but I can see how it might be interpreted that way. Sure, it's a (terrible) financial system for legal transactions as well. (Terrible defined as slow, expensive, and volatile - pick any 3.)

Cash works for things that are grey enough that Visa and Mastercard (or more accurately, banks, won't get involved in.) So yeah, there's a niche for bitcoin use there as well (although I'd argue that if your business requires something like bitcoin, or cash, to succeed, then it's not much of a business...)

Of course, sure, if you're anti-establishment then it's a good option as well. Again so is cash, or apparently gold.
This. And the extra time and Human Resources required for redoing the design along with testing.

It is not that it cant be done. It is not reasonable or cost effective to do it without some clear incentive.
Expand the TikTok ban to include Facebook and Instagram. Twitter and Truth to be spared as they're basically state broadcasters.
Authentication, not necessarily encryption. It's a common misconception to think that you need the latter while you actually need the former. And no, encryption does not mean authentication, not at all, usually you can meaningfully modify the ciphertext if a given protocol has no authentication.

Also, here's a fun thought experiment: consider two channels, one authentic but not encrypted, another non authentic but encrypted. Can you actually find a use for the second one? Can you find a use for securely talking to an unknown entity, other than running Omgele? :)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231579
This Christmas, a relative's boyfriend was on his phone literally 90% of the time we were together. Even when we were opening presents. So I started talking to him. He kept looking at his phone but eventually he put it down. I just needed to get him talking about Lord of the Rings and it was over.

Those of us who do not use phones at all we need to engage with these people who are suffering the worst. We need to show them that loneliness can be alleviated by other means.

Please do not say this is all harmless either. The material they are looking at, and behavioral programing they are being subjecting to, is not harmless. I grew up watching old school TV, and I was never able to see anything remotely close to what an 11 year old can see today.
> made-up name

Are there any non-made-up terms? :)
I've been listening to the radio a lot more recently; there's a few channels, such as my local university's non profit/commercial free radio station that often play some pretty obscure and interesting things, I've discovered a lot of new music that I otherwise never would have listened to.
> Try observing a family member who is not in tech

This is everyone, it is universal, I've met many people "in tech" who also click the most "visually appealing" button because they are trying to dismiss everything in their way to get to the action they are trying to complete.

The microcosm that is HN users might not just dismiss things at the 95%+ rate, but that is because we are fed, every day, how our data is being misappropriated ate every level. I think outside of these tiny communities, even people in tech, are just clicking the pretty button and making the dialog go away.
> I find nothing very interesting on my phone.

It contains the entire Internet? If you see me on my phone at a bus stop, I’m probably reading a book.
> at the mercy of a pilot who I do not know "but trust me"

Well, I trust a professionally trained commercial airline pilot more than a random Uber driver any day. Literally been on cars where driver is watching TikTok while driving, among other dangerous behavior.
It’s automated, I bet on a betting exchange which has an API, so the bets get placed without any input from me.

As it’s a betting exchange they don’t care if you win or lose as you aren’t winning money from them, but they start to take steeper cuts of your profits if you’re a regular winner above some threshold that a random punter is very unlikely to hit.
Volkswagen's bad streak: We know where your car is
Recent investigation by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) reveals that the company has been systematically collecting and storing movement data from hundreds of thousands of vehicles across its brands (VW, Audi, Skoda, and Seat). The data, which includes detailed location information and even vehicle owner details, was left exposed and unprotected on the internet for an extended period of time.
will get more serious once they "understand" that "newer" (in the past 20 years) high-and-highest-ranking employees of these telco companies were integral to these operations. In the EU at least. Employees with a track record in Fortune 5000 companies.
I've personally found that even when I do my best to exude interest in the industry/company through custom question responses or the cover letter that auto-rejection is still the most common end result.

I'm still amazed that the applicant tracking systems don't provide employers with stats like "time spent on application" or "time spent on website researching". At least this would be a signal towards higher interest.

Heck, I'd love a "fave 5" system for employers. Something to flag extreme interest in working for their company. Companies would probably love to have a list of high-intent people to recruit, regardless of their current employment status.
> If someone already consented to using iCloud to store their photos then I would not consider the service mentioned this post to be such a big issue, because Apple would already have the data on their servers with the user's consent.

No, if you enable Advanced Data Protection for iCloud[1], the photos stored in Apple Photos are end to end encrypted.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756
fd a better find is one I like.
I did some major customization for my moonlander that I use with Mac.

https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/ZKdVJ/latest/0

I don't like using the red thumb button or the third thumb button, so I try to cram what I need on the first two on each side. That was facilitated by using "home row modifiers" meaning shift/Ctrl/alt/Mac keys are accessed by holding keys on home row.
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator
Settled on $5.99 for Totals app–priced for value it provides, not build time
Wait, why would you text someone in the same room? Like, to send them a video you're watching?
Look if I have the option of quietly staring at a suburban nightmare or talking to my friends I know what I am going to pick.
They're using the wrong voltage for the calculation. The nominal voltage for a Leaf module is 7.5 volts. So one module would have 7.5 volts * 64 amp-hours = 480 watt-hours. So this device would have somewhere below 960 watt hours.
Beware the Hot Shop
TV is nowhere near as addictive as social media. Take it from someone who watched hours of it daily as a teenager and then barely even missed it upon going to college. Social media has all the niche stuff that wouldn't merit a 30-minute TV series. It's unpredictable, funny, local and international in ways TV never is.
Or, you know, some just fucking feel better than others. But that's hard to comprehend for a LLM.
Can you please give some more details about the pressure methods in mastodon you are writing about, this is very interesting and important.

Is there any systematic study going on about the mechanism of censorship in the fediverse?
There are some things in there I did not exactly get. Mainly, if every class has its own table, and database operations are all so similar, is the software produced not only a collection of very simple mechanical operations? How could there be any value in that?

But there are good things there - data first for example, and the correct identification of interfaces - which will help avoid useless indirections often misunderstood as abstraction.
You're just forcing me to be a vimer at this point. :)

By normal macos experience I mean key bindings for regular text fields, not regular terminal (whatever they're supposed to be). Afaik, Warp was the first one ever to treat terminal input as a regular text field input.
I don’t know their ways, but I expect there’s a lot of emotion in sports betting that can be exploited (bookmakers will not purely optimize for expected profit, but also want lower variance in their profits). If so, betting against clubs in rich countries where betting is popular is the better option.

Whether it beats the bookmaker’s margin I wouldn’t know.
The Book of Eli
War of the Worlds
2012
Day of the Triffids (TV series)
The Bodysnatchers
Waterworld
The Postman
Contagion
They are aiming for SIL 2 which to the best of my knowledge requires no MC/DC coverage. MC/DC support in rustc is being worked on, but I would not expect the required features to land before end of 2025 or even mid 2026.
They should make a dating app out of that.
For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
A reminder that Musk was willing to spend $44b rather than go through discovery in a civil lawsuit. That should tell you something about how fucked the system is.
thanks, glad you like it.

you might be interested in doing a follow-up/update to your post, to use the .search() api, which does more stuff out of the box, such as outOfOrder, quoted, and negatives

Libsearch looks similar to uFuzzy (indexless regexp builder) but more simplistic. the other one i've seen that does this is sifter.js (predates uFuzzy, but i didnt discover it until researching libs to compare afterwards)
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/anarchist-drugs-ag...

>"Our ultimate hope is to get to a point where we're no longer necessary because the notion of DIY medicine, no matter anybody's opinion of it is common enough that if it comes up in conversation, someone can say 'Oh I'm just going to 3D print a replacement'".

>No, no, that is not going to be happening any time soon, or (frankly) at all. I could go one for another couple of thousand words about why that is, about solvents, waste disposal, availability of starting materials, purification, analytical data, formulations, particle size, excipients, and plenty of other topics that complicate that vision enormously. But really, why bother? The people who believe this stuff when they hear it will not be persuaded, because I'm obviously a Big Pharma Shill. Perhaps it will be worthwhile to just note that anyone who actually knows about drug synthesis and manufacture just rolls their eyes when this sort of thing comes up, rather than shaking with fear that their livelihood is under attack. It's like saying that you're going to make your own aluminum foil.

>But I'm sure that no matter what, Four Thieves will continue to make a big noise at biohacker events and the like, giving exciting presentations about how they're changing the world. But it's all. . .a joke. A show. Performance art. A cartoon. I hope they're enjoying themselves.
Similar story here. 20+ years experience in leading dev, pm, and UX teams. Launched multiple 0-1 market leading products, worked with dozens of Fortune 500s.

Applied to more than a hundred positions - one phone screen and one interview.

Then I just went to my large network and within a week I have multiple opportunities - companies creating positions so they can hire me.

Spoke to a number of colleagues in recruiting and who are hiring for their teams - the number of ghost jobs, and frozen but posted positions is staggering. Something is fundamentally broken in the hiring world today.